Citizen Screen

Classic films, television and Hollywood's Golden Age - passions and obsesessions. Enchanted by screens - the magic they portray and the gods and monsters they've featured. It's the stuff that dreams are made of. Ready for my close-up now...

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Theodore Bikel (May 2, 1924 – July 21, 2015)

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Robert Osborne interviews director Norman Jewison at the Asolo Theatre in Sarasota, Florida in 2007, which aired on #TCM as part of the “Private Screenings” series.

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Spencer Tracy and Ernest Hemingway discuss the filming of Hemingway's Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Old Man and The Sea,” on location in Casablanca, Cuba.

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The New York City premiere of Michael Schultz’s Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band happened at Radio City Music Hall today in 1978.

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Herb Edelman (November 5, 1933 – July 21, 1996). Terrific in everything he did.

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Remembering C. Aubrey Smith on his birthday #botd

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Angela Lansbury with Edith Head on set of THE COURT JESTER (1955), directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank.

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Robin Williams was born today in 1951 #botd ❤️

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Filmmaker Norman Jewison was born 100 years ago today #botd

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Andrew L. Stone’s STORMY WEATHER celebrated its premiere in New York City #OnThisDay in 1943. The cast includes Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, the Nicholas Brothers performing the most incredible dance routine in movies.

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Birthday remembrance - Don Knotts #botd

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Remembering Basil Rathbone on the anniversary of his death (July 21, 1967)

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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

- Ernest Hemingway, #botd in 1899

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James Doohan (March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005)

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Peter Falk, Sally Ann Howes and Robert Goulet in the 1966 ABC TV adaptation of “Brigadoon.” Directed by Fielder Cook.

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Walter Winchell, Myrna Loy, Loretta Young, John Garfield, Janet Gaynor and correspondent Quentin Reynolds at the Stork Club in 1942, before a Navy Relief Show at Madison Square Garden.

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Richard Egan (July 29, 1921 – July 20, 1987)